Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Beauty Reading a Letter
Ishikawa Toyonobu · c. 1758
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Feb. 1905; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Ukiyoe shuka 4, AIC vol. 1 (1979), p. 115, no. 39; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. 1 (1955), p. 224, no. 48
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